The Northampton Seminar
“The Talmud was written in exile, and it was the thread that kept Jews together,” he said. “It had no punctuation, no paragraphs. It was a book that was to be transmitted orally from father to son.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/nyregion/an-index-for-the-talmud-after-1500-years.html?hpw
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